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Posted: Tuesday 20 January, 2015 at 10:31 AM

Adolescents twice as likely to be out of school as children of primary school age, say UNESCO and UNICEF

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    New report shows why ‘business as usual’ won’t lead to universal primary or secondary education

     

    January 20th, 2015 - Around 63 million adolescents between the ages of 12 and 15 years are denied their right to an education, according to a new joint report from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and UNICEF, Fixing the Broken Promise of Education for All: Findings from the Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children, released today during the Education World Forum.  

    Globally, 1 in 5 adolescents is not in school compared to almost 1 in 10 primary school-age children. So adolescents are twice as likely to be out of school as their younger counterparts. The report also shows that as children get older, the risk that they will never start school or will drop out increases.  

    In total, 121 million children and adolescents have either never started school or dropped out despite the international community’s promise to achieve Education for All by 2015. Data show that there has been almost no progress in reducing this number since 2007. Children living in conflict, child labourers and those facing discrimination based on ethnicity, gender and disability are the most affected.
     
    There is also a growing concern that previous gains in expanding access to education will erode without a major shift in policies and resources.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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